Notes from the Ground: Dispatch #1, The Missing Bean
If the coffee weren't the Platonic form of all caffeinated drinks, the Bean's purpose would be primarily symbolic.
The Incredulity of St Thomas: icon and iconography
'Thomas is the archetypal skeptic... there is something absurd, then, in the notion of him having his request answered so literally, and of such an answer prompting real belief'
Femislam: the Quran and gender equality
Through fierce historical and hermeneutic critique, Islamic feminists aim to refute the charge that Islam is fundamentally and inherently misogynistic
Hart Island: The Resting Place of New York’s Unclaimed Dead
Hart Island, the largest tax-funded cemetery on Earth affords the only burial ground for the unclaimed, indigent and destitute dead of New York City
Utopia Deconstructed: Le Corbusier and the Banlieue
The machine for living and social utopia
The Right to a Roof: Making Room for Britain’s Squatters
Swarms of Hell’s Angels swamp people’s homes while they are on holiday, changing their locks and inviting the local drug lord round for tea. So goes the powerful and cruel myth of squatting.
Semana Santa: Death and Rebirth in the Andes
Emma Hewitt records chaotic Easter Week celebrations in Peru
ISIS Eye: Seoul
Charlotte Fitt takes us onto the streets of Seoul
Desaparecidos – The Future of Punk?
Dissent, Desaparecidos and the future of punk